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"21 The Father of Wuss
Pat Boone
In 1955, Fats Domino, a black piano wizard from New Orleans, cut “Ain’t That a Shame,” a bouncy R&B number he’d written. Pat Boone, a clean-cut preppie crooner, re-recorded it, only without the soul, and released it the same year, selling far more copies. Thus was born a career in Caucasian dilution: Just as rock was turning dirty, Boone whitewashed raucous songs by Little Richard and others, selling sterile versions of black music and blooming into the de"